Friday, January 29, 2016

A Cigarette, A Budweiser or A Bible?

Several years ago I was facing the greatest crisis of my life.  I was out walking in the mountains trying to deal with the weight of it.  I found myself walking along this rock face when I came upon this crack.  I put my hands upon the rock, one on each side of the crack.  I had come to the end of what I could handle.  This crack represented for me the cost of crisis to break me but also a dividing line, I could go on with Christ or I could escape into my self.  It was a seminal moment for me.  I came home and made the sculpture, “A Cigarette, A Budweiser or A Bible?” which is now part of West Tennessee Regional Art Center’s permanent collection. 

The crisis still lingered on for several years but my testimony today is that it concluded in the greatest miracle of the last 20 years of my life. 


(I took these images yesterday as I went back to renew my faith in Him.)




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